The Los Angeles federal jury deliberated for only about 2 ½ hours before deciding that the creators of “Moana” never had access to writer and animator Buck Woodall’s outlines and script for ...

Woodall testified that he sent Marchick additional materials in the years that followed and was stunned by the resemblance when Moana was released in 2016. The film that went on to earn nearly ...

On Monday, March 10, multiple outlets reported that a federal jury in L.A. needed only two and a half hours of deliberation before it concluded that the creators behind Disney's 2016 animated hit ...

Around 2004, Woodall gave the “Bucky” outline to the stepsister of his brother's wife. That woman, Jenny Marchick, worked for Mandeville Films, a company that had a contract with Disney and was ...

A California jury found that Disney’s Moana did not steal its idea from animator Buck Woodall’s decades-old screenplay about a young Hawaiian surfer. After deliberating for over two hours on ...

Buck Woodall’s five-year battle with Disney over who really created Moana looks to have come to an end, with a Los Angeles jury on Monday finding for the House of Mouse in the animated franchise ...

A California jury found that Disney’s Moana did not steal its idea from animator Buck Woodall’s decades-old screenplay about a young Hawaiian surfer. After deliberating for over two hours on Monday, ...